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And my XMAX can do over 200 miles on the highway from it's 3.3 gallon tank. So what? The fact of the matter is that for 80% or more of my riding which is less than 100 miles a day my Zero is perfect.
What togo says is true. American motorcyclists as a whole put fewer than 3000 miles on their bikes a year. I've heard as low as 1000. On the other hand I've put 6500 miles on my Energica in 4 months. This is the kind of place you're going to find the outliers/freaks, though.
You can control the charge rate throughout for the Energica. The bike does an amp request to the station at its voltage range. The newest models cap out an 80 amp request between 280-330ish volts. Sometimes stations give a few more amps. There's a toggle switch you can dial it down if you have a reason to, as well as set the target SoC if you don't want to go to 100% for longer term storage or other reasons.
It is better to use slower charging for battery life. The HD shops charge at the rate of 15 KW, but my Energica can handle 26 KW charging.
Should only use faster CCS charging when really needed. But home charging is even better for battery life.
Here it is somehow:
It doesn’t matter until it actually happens. Plenty of company heads make claims in public for image promotion that they don’t intend to back up or are effectively unimplementable. It serves him to say that, and it costs him nothing if no one succeeds in engaging his company on that, because the discussions would happen under NDA.
Zero can talk to Elon, and get access to Tesla network. Problem solved.
This is a laughable suggestion. So, either name a company that has accomplished this, or explain why Tesla would even bother negotiating a deal with Zero.
I don't think the issue was "not lucrative" per se
You again ignored ChaDemo, but either way... Zero can talk to Elon, and get access to Tesla network. Problem solved.https://chargedevs.com/features/zero-motorcycles-was-forced-to-abandon-a-dc-fast-charging-option-in-2013-better-interoperability-testing-is-needed/
I didn't ignore it, no one mentioned it. It's a different standard with its own problems.
You might as well have asked why don't they try for Supercharger compatibility. Although, I can't find any public caveats, but it's probably that any company that does so needs to also make their stuff open-source. And they would have to be second-class Supercharger citizens, like owning a lower tier Android phone.
-Crissa
Perhaps wide spread was the wrong term to use, dukecola's description of being sparse would be a better fit.
